Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, merely because you have no seat either in the Lords or the Commons, should not be present at the state opening of Parliament, and accordingly I invite you to attend me and as Lord President of the Council to stand behind me when I read my address.' That was characteristic of King George...
Every seat in the Lecture Hall was taken and both side aisles were jammed with standees during the entire address, constituting, as one member of the faculty was heard to say, "A remarkable tribute to a great scholar...
...plans [of union organization] can be included" in the Federation. But William Green's words fell on hostile ears. At one point he was booed so relentlessly that John Lewis had to heave himself up and wave for silence. "What delegates wish to change their votes after the address of the President of the American Federation of Labor?" cried Miner Lewis. Silence. "What delegates wish to renew their decision?" The cheering delegates rose...
...Mossman Landon of Kansas now claim that their candidate will go to the Republican National Convention at Cleveland in June with at least 182 pledged votes. Last week Governor Landon took the occasion of the festivities at Topeka commemorating 75 years of Kansas Statehood to deliver his most pretentious address to date on national issues...
...heir to the sensational tradition of Carry Nation, "Sockless Jerry" Simpson and John Brown of Osawatomie, this "Coolidge of the West" discoursed for 40 minutes on safety & sanity. The scholarly editorial board of the New York Times heard the address by radio, soberly pronounced: "He impresses you as a man of sound judgment and moderate opinions. . . . Inevitably he utters commonplaces, but some are not 'glittering generalities...